SEO → Site Audit checks every published page for SEO problems and tests every link. It runs on your own site, in small background steps, so it doesn’t slow the site down.
- Click Run first audit (later Run audit again) at the top right. Progress is shown while it runs; you can leave the page.
- Read the health score (0–100), alongside errors, warnings, notices, pages checked and broken links.
- Open Issues: each check with how many pages it affects. Click a check to see the pages, each with an Edit link. Fixing a page and saving it updates its issues immediately.
- Ignore an issue that doesn’t apply; it no longer counts against the score.
- Check Broken links: links that return an error, redirect or can’t be reached, and the posts that contain them. Re-check after fixing.
Settings
Run the audit automatically every day, week or month; check links to other websites or only internal ones; set the word count below which content counts as thin.
On the SEO dashboard, a Site audit card shows the latest health score, errors, warnings and broken links, and broken links and audit errors appear in Next steps. The WordPress Dashboard widget adds a Site health figure.
What it checks
- Titles and descriptions: missing, too long, too short or duplicate.
- Content: thin content, images without alt text, H1 headings in the content, missing focus keywords and low SEO scores.
- Links: orphan pages (nothing links to them), pages without internal links, and broken or redirected links.
- Indexing: noindex pages that others link to, canonical URLs pointing elsewhere, and redirected pages.
- Other page issues: long URLs, missing social images and incomplete structured data.
- Site-wide settings: search engines discouraged, HTTPS, permalinks, a robots.txt that blocks everything, no sitemap, no logo, and Search Console not connected.